Vulnerability in Linux Kernel
CVE-2014-3688
The SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering a large number of chunks in an association's output queue, as demonstrated by ASCONF probes, related to net/sctp/inqueue.c and net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.059 (93.0th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 93rd percentile — 93.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.059 · newest: 0.059 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Linux Kernel — versions 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/13/8 (mailing-list)
- marc.info/ (vendor-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00015.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2418-1 (vendor-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00000.html (vendor-advisory)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0062.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2417-1 (vendor-advisory)
- marc.info/ (vendor-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3060 (vendor-advisory)
- github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/26b87c7881006311828bb0ab271a551a62dcceb4 (Exploit)